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pfarnham t1_ix4x69u wrote

WOW!! I've always wanted to go to Costa Rica

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nomoregoodusernamez t1_ix773pp wrote

So did I! I went and to be honest is was super disappointing. The prices are 1st world but the people and the places are 3rd world. Scenery not that pretty and the way that people hype it up to be “the best” just makes it that much worse when you get there

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Cloud_of_Twat_Mist t1_ix7d958 wrote

I had a similar experience but I slummed it in hostels and on bikes, so it would probably be better in nicer accomidations on the north shore. on my taxi ride to the initial hotel I saw 2 dead bodies on the street from (I'm assuming) traffic accidents, and I almost got mugged twice. Got arrested once (but that was my bad, smoking weed) but let go when they saw I was broke, and I sweated so hard every day I got heat rash all in my business and had to buy fucking diaper cream, which sucked to explain to the grocery people in broken spanish/English. I was in Puerto Viejo on the Caribbean side. The 4-5 hour bus ride to get there was scary as fuck too.

I was a 21 year old skinny white guy traveling alone too though, which isnt the safest either. I would like to re-try maybe

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aresman t1_ix9ljnj wrote

so you went with no money to a place where you don't speak the language, stayed on the cheapest allocations, broke the rules and you still bitch about it?

the fucking nerve

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Cloud_of_Twat_Mist t1_ix9pbmu wrote

I think at every step in my post I pointed out my flaws. I realize I did it poorly, but I didn't have no money. I just didn't have a lot of money. I said that I should retry it

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reggae-mems t1_ix9f3gt wrote

>2 dead bodies on the street

Bitch, stop lying for karma. I have lived 23 years in CR and NEVER have I seen dead bodies laying around. Only time I saw that, was in 2018 at San Fransisco. A man had OD'd on the street walk. Costa Rica? Never

>Got arrested once

You sound like a veeerryyy nice person

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Cloud_of_Twat_Mist t1_ix9pqsj wrote

I dont know what you want me to tell you man, they were like a block apart and it looked like someone was driving and like clipped the sidewalk or something. Maybe they were drunk, who knows. It had like just happened.

And I'm not a bad person I was just young and smoking weed on a beach. I think that's actually pretty morally neutral.

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